Oh bugger 2: The foot of the problem

[unixronin]

Those of you who've been reading this journal since the beginning know about the medical troubles I've had with my foot since "Splat Day" (March 10 1999, the day a San Jose woman T-boned me and my motorcycle on San Jose's Capitol Expressway in a full-size station wagon), and about how long it took to get the open pressure sore under my big toe healed.  (Loss of motion in my left ankle due to extensive scar tissue throughout my left foot and ankle threw all my weight onto my toes, and the tissue of my big toe broke down under the constant pressure.)  We finally cured that by fusing my toe at about a 25° up angle, which let the weight fall on the ball of my foot instead.

It is looking more and more as though there is a new fissure forming now under the ball of my foot.  The front of my foot has been feeling strange the past few days, sort of numb in a way that's not easy to describe, and my toes have been painful in general.  i don't knwo whether the two are connected, or whether the latter is due to the colder weather.

I am getting SO tired of this.  Does it never end?

Comments

[bbullock.livejournal.com]

Sure. You can cut off the foot.
Barring that, and I apologise if it sounds flippant (I'm just trying to sort of put things in perspective), about all you can do is have it seen by trained medical personel and follow whatever good advice they give you. Whether or not it ever ends will depend a great deal on how you deal with it, I guess.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

It doesnt' sound flippant. I'm well aware that is an option, and more than once I've considered whether it would actually end up making my life easier -- if I'd be more mobile and functional with a prosthetic foot. (Hell, more than once I've wished I'd just lost the foot in the first place.)

Yeah, it still may end up going there eventually.